In advance of their upcoming trade show in New York City from January 10-12, 2011, Printsource has released a Top Ten list of print ideas for Spring/Summer 2012. The list was compiled by surface design studio Pattern People to highlight trends in the fashion and home textiles markets. (By the way, Pattern People is an [...]
I got to meet the lovely Ms. Kate Spain for the first time, and let me say she is just the nicest person, and so easy to talk to! She had her first booth at Market to show off Central Park, her fourth collection for Moda, as well as her other surface design work for [...]
{ Fields of Honey organic sateen by Harmony Art } Today we welcome independent fabric designer/producer Harmony Susalla to talk about her company, Harmony Art. I was thrilled to get to meet Harmony earlier this year when she visited Austin. I’ve featured Harmony and her fabrics before, as part of the Organic Fabric series and [...]
I can’t believe how much Deborah Moebes of Whipstitch is rockin the Atlanta sewing scene. She’s organized a Fabric Design Weekend, taking place tomorrow and Saturday, starring Melody Miller, Ellen Baker, and Rashida Coleman-Hale. The deets: We’ll begin on Friday night, September 10, with a Happy Hour meet-n-greet from 6-8 pm, giving you the chance [...]
Everything about Jessica Swift just radiates warmth: The colors of her website, her thoughtful and inspirational blog posts, the love she infuses into her custom portraits, her dazzling, mysterious paintings. Even her yet-to-be-fully-unvieled new project The Declaration of You looks to be a wonderful, warm, supportive whatever-it-is. So I was really excited back [...]
Two cool things happening tomorrow (8/26/10): Spoonflower’s second Free Swatch Day starts at noon EST and runs through noon the next day. Details here. And if you’re anywhere near Berlin, don’t miss this Organic Cotton Info Event co-sponsored by Volksfaden. Details here. – And speaking of Spoonflower, Rayela’s Fiber Focus has posted a tutorial by [...]
First off, big thanks to True Up for inviting me back to talk about Plume, my newest collection for Moda Fabrics. Plume was an opportunity for me to go a little bit further in my design process. The main goal was to drown in detail, the kind of detail that you need muck boots to [...]
Nearly a year after bringing her fresh designs to Spring Quilt Market 2009 to find a home, new designer Jessica Levitt sits down to share with us the tale. After you are thoroughly impressed, please enter our giveaway for one of three fat quarter packs of Timber — details at the end of the post. [...]
If you’ve ever tried to fix seams in a repeating pattern in Photoshop, you know what a HUGE deal this Content-Aware Fill feature will be. The release date of Adobe Creative Suite CS5 has not been announced, but the official unveiling of all its new features will be April 12.
Thanks so much to Kim for inviting me back to True Up, to guest blog about my new fabric collection, Glam Garden! Last time I was here Kim interviewed me about my debut fabric collection Hot Blossom, and today I’m going to share with you the inspiration and creative process behind Glam Garden. For Glam [...]
It’s a mini-meme! This week has seen a handful of talented surface pattern designers posting about their design process. If you follow along you’ll see that the tools are a little different, but the process (basically, of futzing around till you’re satisfied) is largely the same. Betz White takes us from doodle to Illustrator finished [...]
COLOURLovers is a site dedicated to creating and sharing colors, palettes, and patterns. The functionality is terrific and it just got better today with the release of their version 4. Amongst their new offerings is Seamless Studio, a tool for creating seamless patterns online. Now this isn’t a fully featured pattern generator; you’re limited to [...]
Lizzy House, designer of adorable fabric lines Lizzy Dish, Red Letter Day, and the upcoming Castle Peeps (all for Andover Fabrics), recently spilled about a book she’s written (well, an e-book, but a book’s a book in my book) called How To Enter The World Of Textile Design: For The Quilting Industry. Since I started [...]
V&A Pattern Four-Volume Set V & A Publishing, 2009 (distributed in the U.S. by Abrams) This was a great year for pattern sourcebooks, and I don’t think it can get better than the new series from The Victoria & Albert Museum. The first series, available individually or as a box set, includes the Fifties, Indian [...]
Earlier this year Fabric on Demand joined the pioneering Spoonflower in offering affordable digital fabric printing over the internet to the everyday crafter. Soon after, two more services popped up, Karma Kraft and Eye Candey. (Full disclosure: the latter two are also True Up sponsors.) I had a single design printed by all four services [...]
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